NDIA Blog
Are You Part of a Digital Inclusion Coalition? We Want to Hear About It
Digital inclusion coalitions across the country are working hard to foster digital equity and bridge the digital divide in their local communities and states. NDIA is currently conducting a survey to better understand the breadth and depth of this work and the best...
Executive Director Angela Siefer Receives the 2024 Internet Protocol Award
Last evening at the 21st Annual IP3 Awards, Public Knowledge presented the National Digital Inclusion Alliance’s (NDIA) esteemed Executive Director Angela Siefer with the 2024 Internet Protocol Award, recognizing her work to close the digital divide and her...
Calling All Digital Inclusion Trailblazers: Applications Now Open
Today through the end of October, you can apply to be recognized as a Digital Inclusion Trailblazer! Entering its eighth year, Digital Inclusion Trailblazers is more than just an award; it serves as an honor roll and resource inventory for excellent digital equity...
NDIA Announces the Digital Inclusion Program Manual
Seven years ago, NDIA released the Community Digital Inclusion Program Start-Up Manual (The Start-Up Manual). Written by NDIA founders Angela Siefer and Bill Callahan, this manual was a blueprint and a call to action. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused...
Seven Star Communities: Calling for Applications for a New Initiative to Recognize Native Entities
Seven Star Communities is a new initiative to honor and celebrate Native nations accomplishing digital inclusion work. Native nations are a critical part of our network of digital inclusion practitioners here at NDIA. The Seven Star Communities program hopes to...
It’s time to prepare your Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program applications!
On July 24, 2024, NTIA published the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Competitive Grant Program. The Competitive Grant Program is the third (and final) set of funds available from the Digital Equity Act (DEA) authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and...
NDIA Announces Grading Internet for Good
To help millions of households navigate and evaluate low-cost internet plans, NDIA created a new rating system to evaluate a plan's affordability and quality. NDIA GIG (Grading Internet for Good) reflects lessons from ACP that contributed to the program’s success and...
Native Entities Capacity Grant Program
This is the third in a three-part series about the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program announcement from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Read the first blog post with an overview of the program and the second with...
Net Inclusion 2025 & 2026!
Join us at the nation's premier digital equity event, gathering together practitioners, advocates, academics, internet service providers, and policymakers as we make history with our first-ever conference on Tribal Lands in Gila River Indian Community. We’re excited...
Updated Digital Navigator Definition and New Standards
In 2020, NDIA convened a group of digital inclusion practitioners to establish a definition for the term “digital navigator.” The term described a model for digital inclusion built upon years of similar work, tailored for the new realities of the time. Together, NDIA...